Abstract
Text prompting is an indirect interface for poster generation, requiring users to encode inherently two-dimensional composition intent into a one-dimensional sequence of words. We introduce a Spatial Canvas Interface that enables users to directly compose generation intent in space through four complementary binding types: semantic, identity, text, and pixel, together with Text Specifications for individual elements and global appearance. Based on this interface, we develop Compo, a poster generation model adapted from a pretrained image editing model to understand Spatial Canvas inputs and Text Specifications. Compo supports both direct inference, where users explicitly construct the canvas, and agentic mode, where a high-level request is automatically translated into a planned Spatial Canvas. To train Compo, we develop a scalable pipeline that automatically constructs supervision data for different binding types and their combinations, enabling efficient adaptation without training a specialized poster generator from scratch. We further introduce a benchmark that evaluates adherence to individual binding types and their joint composition. Experiments show that Compo achieves stronger compositional controllability than both general-purpose image generation models and dedicated poster generation systems while maintaining high visual quality. By decoupling intent specification from visual generation, our work shifts poster generation from prompting toward composing.
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APA 7
Wang, Y., Wei, F., Zhao, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, H., Chen, D., Dai, B., & Lu, Y. (2026). From Prompting to Composing: A Spatial Canvas Interface for Poster Generation. https://omanscience.com/en/articles/from-prompting-to-composing-a-spatial-canvas-interface-for-poster-generation
MLA 9
Wang, Yitong, et al. "From Prompting to Composing: A Spatial Canvas Interface for Poster Generation." https://omanscience.com/en/articles/from-prompting-to-composing-a-spatial-canvas-interface-for-poster-generation.
Chicago (author–date)
Wang, Yitong, Fangyun Wei, Jinjing Zhao, Sirui Zhang, Hongyang Zhang, Dong Chen, Bo Dai, and Yan Lu. 2026. "From Prompting to Composing: A Spatial Canvas Interface for Poster Generation." https://omanscience.com/en/articles/from-prompting-to-composing-a-spatial-canvas-interface-for-poster-generation.
Harvard
Wang, Y., Wei, F., Zhao, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, H., Chen, D., Dai, B. and Lu, Y. (2026) 'From Prompting to Composing: A Spatial Canvas Interface for Poster Generation', Available at: https://omanscience.com/en/articles/from-prompting-to-composing-a-spatial-canvas-interface-for-poster-generation.
Vancouver
Wang Y, Wei F, Zhao J, Zhang S, Zhang H, Chen D, et al. From Prompting to Composing: A Spatial Canvas Interface for Poster Generation. https://omanscience.com/en/articles/from-prompting-to-composing-a-spatial-canvas-interface-for-poster-generation
IEEE
Y. Wang, F. Wei, J. Zhao, S. Zhang, H. Zhang, D. Chen, B. Dai, and Y. Lu, "From Prompting to Composing: A Spatial Canvas Interface for Poster Generation," https://omanscience.com/en/articles/from-prompting-to-composing-a-spatial-canvas-interface-for-poster-generation.